by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So, I find myself chugging along with this first novel in what I hope is a five novel series, and, yet, I continue to have a lot of bad habits. One of my biggest bad habits is I keep wanting to use scenes I’ve already written as nothing more than something akin to object-oriented programing where I move them around without any value.
This is bad because there will come a point when someone ELSE is going to read what I’m writing and they’re going to find the end result rather jarring. And, yet, I need to keep momentum.
So, sometimes, I just use something I’ve already written as something akin to a placeholder. I’m a pretty unique situation in my life at the moment when it comes to writing and all good things have to come to and end — and I’m not getting any younger — so, lulz, so momentum is a huge deal.
I have a whole lot at the moment. Though, I will admit I feel waves of sheepishness writing and talking about something I’ve been working on for years now.
And, yet, I know that my storytelling ability has improved a great deal and most of the delay has come from, well, how I’ve been forced to bootstrap myself to the point where I don’t embarrass myself in what I write.
It’s taken a long, long time to get to where I am now and I continue to grow startled now and again at this or that storytelling thing that I totally missed. Which, in turn, forces me to scrap a lot of what I’ve already written.
Lulz.
